CDD is sponsored by York University's Graduate Program in Critical Disability Studies. For more information about this program, please visit their website at: http://www.yorku.ca/gradcdis/.

The journal’s review board has consisted of students from York University, the University of Toronto, Laval University, McMaster University, and the University of Cambridge. This past year, we have been working tirelessly on our next issue, reviewing articles submitted from across North America and Europe.

CDD was conceived by, and is managed entirely by, graduate students, under the auspices of the Critical Disability Studies graduate program. Our objective is to create an academic space where graduate students might make valuable contributions to the expanding field of critical disability studies. In an environment where we are pressured by the mandate to publish or perish, and yet are given very few opportunities to compete successfully for space in journals, this journal is meant to facilitate an academic community and to provide a more promising opportunity to gain exposure for their work in the public sphere for people just beginning their careers.

Journal topics share in common a dedication to anti-oppression and social justice. It is the intention of the CDSSA to bring disability-related issues to mainstream scholastic conversations by promoting and publishing arguments that critically assess disabling social conditions. Discourse about disability is arguably not taken seriously enough in mainstream academic circles; without theoretical backing, it is difficult to effect social change. For CDD’s team, therefore, the journal might serve as part of a greater effort to bring disability to the table and to redress physical and attitudinal discrimination.

Critical Disability Discourse / Discours Critiques dans le Champ du Handicap is a graduate student journal launched in 2009 by the students of the Graduate Program in Critical Disability Studies at York University http://www.yorku.ca/gradcdis/. We recently published the fifth volume of our open-access journal, and we would like to invite you to read it here: http://pi.library.yorku.ca/ojs/index.php/cdd/issue/current.

We are currently accepting submissions of articles (3000-7000 words) for consideration for inclusion in our sixth volume. The deadline for submissions is March 1, 2014.

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